Velvety fruit-eating bat | |
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In Puntarenas, Costa Rica | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Phyllostomidae |
Genus: | Enchisthenes K. Andersen, 1906 |
Species: | E. hartii
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Binomial name | |
Enchisthenes hartii (Thomas, 1892)
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Synonyms | |
Artibeus hartii Thomas, 1892 |
The velvety fruit-eating bat (Enchisthenes hartii), also known as Hart's little fruit bat, is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is the only species within the genus Enchisthenes. It is found in Central America, Mexico, the United States, and northern South America.[1]